Reading 2021 Books I read in 2021: Whereabouts: A novel by Jhumpa Lahiri Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant The Sellout by Beaty Paul Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon Power Play by Tim Higgins Tenth of December: Stories by George Saunders Studio Culture Now by Editor: Mark Sinclair Seeing Serena by Gerald Marzorati After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made by Ben Rhodes Men and Style: Essays, Interviews, and Considerations by David Coggins Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning by Philip Kennicott Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design by Michael Bierut Major Labels by Kelefa Sanneh The Defining Moment by Jonathan Alter An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination by Sheera Frenkel This Isn't Happening by Steven Hyden The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer by Christopher Clarey How to Raise an Adult by Julie Lythcott-Haims Self-Reliance by Ralph Emerson My Heart by Semezdin Mehmedinovic No Rules Rules by Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer The Free World by Louis Menand The Innovation Stack by Jim McKelvey The Chancellor by Kati Marton Beautiful World, Where Are You: A Novel by Sally Rooney The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgaard Paul Thomas Anderson: Masterworks by Adam Nayman Fox 8: A Story by George Saunders Three Women by Lisa Taddeo The Most Fun Thing: Dispatches from a Skateboard Life by Kyle Beachy Proustian Uncertainties by Saul Friedländer They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib The Monocle Book of Homes by Tyler Brûlé